Problem with Game Boy lenticular screen?

[StudWorks]

Does anybody else have this issue where the "Nintendo" lenticular screen, when centered, clones itself to the top? I couldn't find people online who have the same issue, so is this something I should contact customer service about?

Also, is the "SOUND" print misaligned on your Game Boy too? Unlike the lenticular screen, I know the majority of people who purchased this set have this issue with the print so I'm fine with it.

[Peppermint_M]

I checked mine and i don't get the Nintendo cloning at most angles, so I would call that an OK lenticular. Sound is slightly out of line too, but that is not something I am concerned for.

Honestly, I love the whole thing, so I might have overlooked a few variations. (Also, I am keeping the Zelda one "loaded" as I love LoZ).

[anothergol]

12 hours ago, StudWorks said:

Also, is the "SOUND" print misaligned on your Game Boy too? Unlike the lenticular screen, I know the majority of people who purchased this set have this issue with the print so I'm fine with it.

other manufacturers have easily solved this problem by printing connected parts at once, but LEGO still doesn't do that

(I haven't received mine yet, maybe I'll be lucky)

[Mylenium]

The cloning happens when the prism foil is slightly misaligned with the print underneath, so yes, request a replacement if it's important to you. Same for the misaligned "Sound" print. Commonality is not an excuse to ignore genuine lapses in quality.

Mylenium

[SNIPE]

mine does this, I thought it was just kinda normal

[anothergol]

On 10/13/2025 at 11:25 AM, Mylenium said:

The cloning happens when the prism foil is slightly misaligned with the print underneath, so yes, request a replacement if it's important to you. Same for the misaligned "Sound" print. Commonality is not an excuse to ignore genuine lapses in quality.

The problem is that they're not gonna be able to send aligned parts because those are not produced. 
I mean he'd probably be sent one that looks MORE centered, but ideally the 2 should be printed together.

It's like asking for better, more opaque & matching, Speed Champions canopy paints, because yours looks light grey on a white car (which is quite ironic btw, you can bet that the Delorean one will look dark grey, while they just have to paint it white for it to be proper light grey lol). It's not like LEGO has well-painted versions somewhere. They'll just register your complaint, maybe give you points, look at their stats, and never improve because the sets are selling well anyway.

 

Edited October 15 by anothergol

[StudWorks]

11 hours ago, anothergol said:

I mean he'd probably be sent one that looks MORE centered, but ideally the 2 should be printed together.

They'll just register your complaint, maybe give you points, look at their stats, and never improve because the sets are selling well anyway.

Yeah that's what I was thinking. I'll send some sort of compliant to customer service anyways.

[anothergol]

I'm building mine atm, and I'm lucky, the "sound" is only very slightly misaligned.

I also have the double nintendo when centered.
I'm more bothered by the injection marks on the buttons though, which they of course carefully photoshop out on the marketing material.

10/10 for the design though. Perhaps the more accurate thing LEGO has ever done.

 

[Mylenium]

14 hours ago, anothergol said:

The problem is that they're not gonna be able to send aligned parts because those are not produced. I mean he'd probably be sent one that looks MORE centered, but ideally the 2 should be printed together.

Yes, I'm well aware of that. The alignment of the screen should be a lot, better, though. I've worked with enough clients from the print industry (those that build the actual machines as well as print shops) and most of them would find this unacceptable when you can literally calibrate offset and flexo machines to a thousandth millimeter and the same goes for the ones gluing on the prism foil and doing the (die) cutting. UV printing/ pad printing is a different beast, but even here I would argue that it should be better even without pre-assembling groups of elements. It's not witchcraft to build stoppers and alignment templates and hold elements in place with vacuum even if you have to accept some tolerances with a material like ABS. In any case, the point here is at the very least that the deviations should not be this massive and QA should have caught and remedied them before anything left the factory.

Mylenium

[anothergol]

Yeah I don't know about pad printing, but a few years ago when I was asking around for custom UV-printing on LEGO, where centering mattered a lot more than quality for me, I was always replied that they could just not garantee good alignment.

[Lyichir]

My lenticular screen was like that too but I had assumed it was just a limitation of the lenticular tech used. The scrolling Nintendo logo has more "frames" of animation than the Mario and Zelda screens that just cycle between two frames each, so I figured that to get the logo to scroll all the way from the top to the middle they had to have it "share" the first and last frames like that.

I'll be interested if you can get a "fixed" replacement, if so I might want to try to do so as well.

[Stereo]

With how the lenticular effect works, you might get a different result by changing how far from the screen you are - more likely to overlap frames of this animation the closer you get.  Since you see the top and middle of the display from different angles when you're close to it.

Edited October 17 by Stereo